Isikoff Speaks
Michael Isikoff, the embattled author of the controversial Newsweek Koran item, sat with Charlie Rose last night for his first interview since the story broke. Howard Kurtz and the Associated Press have some excerpts this morning:
“It was terrible what happened. Even if it was just a little bit that we contributed to the violence that went on over there, that was awful, terrible.”
“This one reference to the Koran did not leap out to me, to my editors, nor to the Pentagon as something that was especially sensitive or especially incendiary.”
Backing off use of anonymous sources? “I got to tell you, as somebody who ha reported for a long time the intelligence and law enforcement field, that’s going to be tough.
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